The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-11-24
TEE CENTRAL CITY.
More About Decatur and What Giles
County People are Doing
Down There.


state of Alabama itself is to repeat
the history of Birmingham. He
makes the remarkable prediction
that Tennessee and Alabama to-
gether will within year be draw
ing drafts on New York for $4,000
900 for iron sold north of the Ohio
river. The Alabama mines are
yielding easily from $4,000 to
$4,000 day. Col Colyar does not
speak idly. He is acquainted with
the facts and knows what he talks
about.
Judge Bond says Decatur will |
have hundred thousand people IN |
ten years. That sounds incredible.
She will have it easy at the rate she
is going. The contract was awarded
Saturday for building the L. d N.
shops-14 buildings from 1870 to
$50 feet in length each. They will
be the largest in the south. The
contract has also been signed for
the erection of car wheel works on
very large scale. The Southern
Horse Nail Company was organ
lied the same day. These are the
work of one day. 1t is the same
day after day. The L. d N. shops
will employ at the start 500 work
men. The industries now in course
of construction at Decatur will
employ not less than
TEN THOUSAND SKILLED woRKMEN.
That alone means q population of
40, 900 when they are in full opera
ton. The growth in population is
limited to the houses available for
residences. The building of these
is going on with a marvellous rush
and the facilities increase from day
to day.
Decatur gets fresh impetus by
the visit of the association of char
coal iron workers there last week,
and by the visit also of body of
northern capitalists, including Mr..
Pullman of palace car fame, and
Hon. Rob't T. Lincoln, the son OF
the war president. The party rep
resented it is said capital of over
s200,000,000. Mr. Pullman, it is
said, has already decided to locate
his southern shops at Decatur.
1t is given out as the opinion OF
experts that this country is also to
be the center of charcoal produc-
ton. The limitless forests up and
down the Tennessee and inland
furnish fuel for unlimited charcoal
both for chemical extraction, for fuel
and for iron production. Decatur
will have direct railroad connection
with the Iron City ore beds, pro-
nounced the finest in the south,
land the proof of the assertion is
furnished in the fact that the ore is
shipped all around by Columbia to
Birmingham), and with the IN
touched forests that cover those
river counties. It is confidently
predicted that hereis to be the seat
of charcoal production.
A gentleman from Prospect was
in The CITIZEN Office Monday, and
the conversation drifted to Decatur
during which he remarked that Mr..
Frank Mays of Prospect had made
some money down there but that he
WAS busily kicking himself every
day for turning loose too quick
He owned five acres and sold it
for profit of three thousand dol
lars, and to-day it is worth 49,
900! Perhaps be exaggerated lit
tie, but We mention it to show now
rapidly prices have advanced. Now
Decatur ia not yet yesr old, and
at ne see such .results as this. 1t
10 not mere speculative growth, but
arises out Of legitimate demand and
actual investment of money. The
hotels are crowded every day with
strangers. They come in bodies
from the north, and they come 10
the shape Of written orders to agents
to invest.
Three weeks ago party of Louis
vile business men, including Mr..
c. c. Bickell, well known in Giles,
and several of the staunchest bust
ness men Of the Fall City, spent a
day or two ia pecstur, and the re-
suit is large investments. The read
or, unless he has been there, has no
idea OF the amount Of northern peo-
pie and capital that are coming il
there. II is not all northern, how
ever, by long shot. Birmingham
is sending much of her overflow OF
money up there and from all over
the south men are coming in to get
on the tide O. fortune flowing in on
Decatur. Mr.. Percy Smith, Giles |
county boy who went to Birming-
ham 20 clerk only four or five years !
ago, and who is now worth many |
thousand dollars, has bought one |
Of the choicest lots in the new
city and will build E magnificent
business house adjoining the $780,
900 opera house, also under con-
tract. Our Mr. Cid Simmons re-
Gently went to Decatur, selling one
Of his farms here, and he tells Us
that his investment there is already
sorih q considerable advance. Pu-
laski and Giles county have pu-
merous men there who are making
money in various ways. Besides
that, we know Of orders that are
being filed IN Giles for various pro
ducts and it is increasing and will
increase indefinitely. Our county
is nov furnishing most Of the
stone being used there, considers
bic lime and lam Der, psovender, pro
visions, grain, butter, milk, eggs,
etc, and the demand On rs viii be
limited alone by the DUmber Of
mouths to iced.
We believe strongly in Decatur's
future, converted only very recently
at that. No man can go there and
ece the wonderful work progressing
without ne.pg cqhyiuceG. lqdeed, !
with over fifty manufacturing !
plants, covering the Whole re i'm Of
industry, some Of mammoth propor-
tions. aggregating in capit~l IN
vested nsay millions OF DO lars,
and being added to every day, ,he.a
is slready the neucleus Of a large
city. it hes to he built to accom-
modate the people that operate AMI
trade in the Oroducis of ine enter.